Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-23
THE WEEKLY GAZETTE FRIDAY
OF intense excitement to the sanctiiec,
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/ OF intense excitement to the sanctidec
who help matters on BY shouting "Halle
lujah!" "Glory to God" "Swee'
Jesus" etc. These at the mourners'
bench are completely carried away with
their feelings, bending their bodies,
clapping their hands, stamping their fee,
and shouting, while Mrs. Woodwork and
her assistants pass among them speaking
! words Of encouragement.
The night the Herald correspondent
visited the camp he witnessed a remark
eble scene. A woman giving the name
OF Mrs Sea of Clifton, Ii, sat on the
front seat with her erms bound in band
ages. When the invitation came for
seekers to come forward she was among
| the number to respond. Mrs. Wood
worth saw she WAS msnifesting faith and
went TO work on her. STOPPING over, the
evangelist began removing the bsndeges,
speaking words Of hope ali the while
| Other assistants were around the woman
singing and calling on the Lord for help
Finally Mrs. Ses srOse with look Of
happiness and relief. She moved her
arms and joined in the demon
stratiOn made over her recovery. The
woman said to the audience that
for years she had been afflicted with some
disease in the arms which occssioned her
extreme pain. She had tried different
physicians, without gaining any relief
whatever, but now she was cured. It
was an interesting scene, to say the least.
The woman YVES of Respectable appear
ance, and told her story in q plain,
straightforward manner. Whether ornot
she YES cured, or whether she was ever
afflicted, nobody here is prepared to say,
but that she was sufferer is the general
belief. The evangelist did not know her,
but was positive she would gain relief
when she began manifesting signs of the
fsith. As soon IS Mrs. Sea protested
q cure she began to help exhort
the congregation and urging all unbe-
! .iever5 TO struggle and overcome their
pre- JUDGES. The meeting has Just opened
( here, and Mrs. Sea was the first one to
be cured. While st Boiling Springs,
however, Mrs. Bradshaw, wife of Rev.
Arthur Bradshaw OF Decatur, an old and
wSll-known Methodist minister, attended
the meetings, ard Csme back cured OF
rheumatism, with which she had been
afflicted for years. Many incidents could
be cited at these meetings where people
have been known to be efli,cted and claim
to have been cured through faith. While
the interest is already up to fever heat
it has not reached the proportions the
evangelists expect it to attain.
One of the most interesting studies
concerning tie meeting is the credulity
of people who have ailments. Arthur
Barnes CT St. Louis business college,
heard ofthe meetings and came to Boiling
Springs and Decatur with his son, who
is badly crippled in one foot. He had
tried everything he could to help the boy
without availing anything, and now be
lieves that if the boy can get the faith he
will be cured. Yesterday g man came in
from Carbonate, with his wife, who has
mad rheumatism for years. They believe
/ she has at last come to cure. AS above
stated, Mrs. Woodwork claims no IN.
natural power, but says the people who
are afflicted must have faith in Christ
! themselves.